PingPlotter vs. UVexplorer by UVnetworks

PingPlotter

UVexplorer by UVnetworks

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
PingPlotter	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	PingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier for everyone from online gamers and video streamers to VoIP admins and IT pros. Features for remote deployment, network monitoring, scripting, and a web interface are included along with several additional capabilities.	$0 per user
UVexplorer	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	UVnetworks' focus is to provide simple solutions that help IT administrators identify, track, and troubleshoot their IT infrastructure. UVexplorer automatically discovers information about the devices on a network and the connections between them. It can be used to monitor the status of critical devices and services, and users can receive notifications when problems arise, tracking the network's performance using UVexplorer's Ping monitors, CPU monitors, Disk monitors, and Web Site monitors.	$1,795 per year 2500 network interfaces

Pricing

PingPlotter

UVexplorer by UVnetworks

Editions & Modules

PingPlotter Free: $0.00
per user
PingPlotter Free: $0.00
per user
PingPlotter Standard: $6.99
per user per month
PingPlotter Professional: $29.00
per user per month
PingPlotter Standard: $39.99
per user
PingPlotter Professional: $349.00
per user

UVexplorer: starting at $1,795
per year 2500 network interfaces
UVexplorer Server: starting at $3,395
per year 2500 network interfaces

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
PingPlotter	UVexplorer
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$1,000 one-time fee per installation

Additional Details

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Volume tier available above 2,500 network interfaces.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	PingPlotter	UVexplorer by UVnetworks
Considered Both Products	PingPlotter JS James Bennett Saxon Software Realizer Chose PingPlotter I used Ping.app and UptimeLog.app on the Mac. These both provided different aspects. These two had a menubar to show me green or red for multiple connections. UptimeLog showed me very clearly when my connectivity was on or off and for exactly how long. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter Free vs paid is winning. Incentivized Helpful? CW Cameron Weir CEO Chose PingPlotter Has history and cloud access. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter is much easy to work with Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter Okta is a mment in time, PingPlotter is continuous Incentivized Helpful? Chase Grimes Senior Technical Consultant Chose PingPlotter There program is unmatched for what it does, I wouldn't even recommend to myself trying another. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter I've tried more products that are not in the list but PingPlotter is the easiest to use and the better one so far because of the interface and function. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter has better visualizations and a stronger ability to capture historical data than other tools I've used. This makes it easier to find the root cause by looking back in the log data to find where latency or packet loss occurred. Incentivized Helpful? Martin Vandepas Hardware Engineer Chose PingPlotter Wireshark doesn't have this functionality and the commandline ping tool built into windows doesn't do plots. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter has a better UI and more customizable features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter I am not aware of any tools like PingPlotter. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter A balance of a generic tool vs a network equipment product is necessary when investigating network incidents or disruptions. Need to train the engineer to use both tools to perform their analysis and to dive down to the issues as fast as they can. Experience with the tools will … Incentivized Helpful? BS Brett Stone Network Operations Manager Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter stacks up very well to Solarwinds NPM and can provide many of the same benchmark tests that Solarwinds can. PingPlotter is most certianly much better at doing Traceroutes than NPM, and you can run a lot of the same reports. Incentivized Helpful? CM Carol-Guðrún McComb IT Technician Chose PingPlotter It didn’t come up to my expectations cause of Being 1. Less active Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PingPlotter PingPlotter is a basic version of Auvik, although it is easier to setup and there is less intrusion in the customers network. This allows us to use PingPlotter as a prospecting tool and allows to accurately gather network information very quickly. Basic troubleshooting is great … Incentivized Helpful? Fraser Clark Network Engineer Chose PingPlotter I have tried a few free products and some paid ones but never really did what I wanted. I just needed a simple, always-on link monitor specifically with a traceroute element and this is what PingPlotter delivers. The others were either overly complex or too expensive, some just … Incentivized Helpful?	UVexplorer No answer on this topic

Features

PingPlotter

UVexplorer by UVnetworks

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	PingPlotter 8.3 Ratings 5% above category average	UVexplorer by UVnetworks - Ratings
Automated network device discovery	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network monitoring	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable reports	7.90 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	PingPlotter	UVexplorer by UVnetworks
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	PingPlotter	UVexplorer by UVnetworks
Likelihood to Recommend	It is well suited for performing monitoring and testing from a single device. It is less appropriate if you have to monitor from multiple different endpoints. That type of deployment would be more of an enterprise application. If you are looking for an end user monitoring solution then PingPlotter is the one for you. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Monitor traffic in network Measure stops when contacting network locations such as websites Measures the lag and latency it takes to contact network locations Gives you both induvidual measurements as well as good oversight identifies when network lag or disconnect occurs JH Johann Helgason Director of services Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Its a little confusing to see which targets are currently running pings and which ones are displayed in the plots. Starting and stopping pings requires a right click and that would be better with a play/pause button I think. Ability to drag and drop the graphs to reorder them. more columns to show which targets are running and which are displayed. Currently this is done with symbols so you cant sort by just the running targets for example I've found. Incentivized Martin Vandepas Hardware Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	I installed it and it just started working. I realized I could then tweak it to show what I needed but didn't have to spend a long time configuring it before use, editing YAML files etc. Maybe that's fine for a network professional, but I only need this software if something goes wrong, and then need it to work quickly out of the box. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	I have not had much contact with the PingPlotter support, only one time have I went to them and it was a positive experience. The questions I had were answered quickly and professionally. I have no issue with the experience I had with the Support team. This was from before and after the purchase of the product. Incentivized Fraser Clark Network Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	I used Ping.app and UptimeLog.app on the Mac. These both provided different aspects. These two had a menubar to show me green or red for multiple connections. UptimeLog showed me very clearly when my connectivity was on or off and for exactly how long JS James Bennett Saxon Software Realizer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Great ROI, troubleshooting time has been reduced by 90% Network Discoveries used to take 2 to 3 hours and were inconsistent - now it is a matter of minutes lacks integration into our MSP toolkit, and we now use it as a stand alone product Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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